A History of Sanskrit Literature c21.s4: Chapter VI

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Consult especially Zimmer, *Altindisches Leben*, Berlin, 1879. On the home of the Rigvedic Aryans (p. 145) *cf.* Hopkins, *The Panjāb and the Rig-Veda*, *Journal of the Am. Or. Soc.*, 1898, p. 19 ff. On the *Hamsa* (p. 150) *cf.* Lanman, *The Milk-drinking Haṅsas of Sanskrit Poetry*, *ibid.*, p. 151 ff. On the Vedic tribes (pp. 153–157), *cf.* Excursus I. in Oldenberg's *Buddha*, Berlin, 1897. On the origin of the castes (p. 160) *cf.* Oldenberg, *Journal of the Germ. Or. Soc.*, 1897, pp. 267–290; R. Fick, *Die Sociale Gliederung im nordöstlichen Indien zu Buddha's Zeit*, Kiel, 1897.